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June 2010

  1. “Just like CGI helped George Lucas eliminate actors, if you can build something that eliminates the need for more [video game industry] artists, you’ll be able to sell that.” (Hacker News)

May 2010

  1. “UX as a discipline is still pretty unrefined: people are only just now realizing that you need actual (traditional) design (art, usability, ergonomics, cognitive science, psychology) skills to really do your job well.” (Hacker News)
  2. Pascal Finette at Mozilla Labs says some very nice things about my design workshops
  3. “Theory: there is no use case for which a tag cloud is a correct answer.” (Twitter)
  4. Public domain design (visual/graphic/typographic) texts in Google Books (Twitter)
  5. Next design workshop is brainstorming around social media
  6. Scott Handsaker of Eventarc also calls my business cards the best of SXSW 2010
  7. Next design workshop is critiques
  8. “You’re not delivering a package, you’re meeting a stranger and taking a package on a secret mission!” (Hacker News)

April 2010

  1. Notes for my game mechanics workshop
  2. “A preview of my notes for Monday’s design workshop on game mechanics” (Twitter)
  3. “Good web design is good design first, with accommodations made for low-resolution text, small viewports, backlighting, scrolling and pointers.” (Hacker News)
  4. Next design workshop is on game mechanics
  5. Initial to-do for a Drupal module developer UX guide (Drupal Usability)
  6. Thanks for talking with me at DrupalCon SF 2010!
  7. Next design workshop is on brainstorming

March 2010

  1. Design review for “Biographies”
  2. Developing asynchronous web services on Windows
  3. “A little closer to being able to develop on iPhone/iPad” (Twitter)
  4. Debugged canvas text rendering in Mozilla Bespin Embedded 0.6.2 on iPhone (Mozilla Bugzilla)
  5. Debugged JSON in Mozilla Bespin Embedded 0.6.2 on iPhone (Mozilla Bugzilla)
  6. Next design workshop is on metrics
  7. “I’d have done market research first. [My startups] all failed because the intended market didn’t exist and I couldn’t afford to retarget.” (Hacker News)
  8. “[M]aybe investing one’s time in Drupal is seen as a big risk to one’s resume. If that’s the problem, what’s the solution?” (GeekAustin)
  9. “Whiteboarding the DNA of IA: Alphabetical, Chronological, Geographic, Taxonomic (DNA is ACGT; was Wurman’s LATCH)” (Twitter)
  10. “Screen printing the Drupal druplicon yesterday” (Twitter)
  11. “Microsoft makes developers feel wanted. Apple makes developers feel like artists. What does Drupal make developers feel like?” (GeekAustin)
  12. About those neat instant photo business cards
  13. Nick Disabato, writer of Cadence & Slang, calls my business cards the best of SXSW 2010
  14. “SXSW business card stats: 19% of cards were a non-standard size, 75% of those were Moo cards” (Twitter)
  15. “SXSW business card stats: of those with Twitter profiles, 40% were personal; 60% were company cards, but the holder was a principal” (Twitter)
  16. “SXSW business card stats: 100% had email addresses, 95% had phone numbers, 71% had web sites, 24% had Twitter profiles” (Twitter)
  17. “Amazon’s PayPhrase is Jef Raskin’s ‘simplified sign-ons’ (6.4.3 in Humane Interface) plus a masked PIN to prevent shoulder-surfing.” (Twitter)
  18. Thanks for talking with me at SXSW 2010!
  19. No design practice during SXSW
  20. “When you say, ‘I want to make things, not just glue things together,’ I hear, ‘I want to putter, not just ship.’” (Twitter)
  21. “ACGT is the DNA of IA: Alphabetical, Chronological, Geographic, Taxonomic (was: Wurman’s LATCH)” (Twitter)

February 2010

  1. Next design workshop location in Austin announced
  2. Design (and related) groups in Austin, TX (GeekAustin)
  3. Next design workshop location in Austin announced
  4. Added the artifacts and analysis from the first design workshop

January 2010

  1. Next design practice workshop location in Austin announced
  2. “My experience being hired for UX is They want to see artifacts taking entire flows from reqs→sketches→wireframes→prototypes→execution.” (Twitter)
  3. Regarding the Nexus One’s speech-recognition censoring: Dragon Dictation on the iPhone (Twitter)
  4. Next UX/IxD/UI/etc. design practice workshop location in Austin announced

December 2009

  1. First UX/IxD/UI/etc. design practice workshop location in Austin announced
  2. “URI canonicalization with an X-Canonical-URI a LINK HTTP header” (Hacker News)
  3. Practice user experience and interaction design with your peers

November 2009

  1. Released v0.051 of the Balsamiq Mockups conversion tool
  2. Released v0.050 of the Balsamiq Mockups conversion tool
  3. Released v0.042 of the Balsamiq Mockups conversion tool

October 2009

  1. Released v0.041 of the Balsamiq Mockups conversion tool

September 2009

  1. How to choose a Drupal module (Austin Drupal Meetup)

August 2009

  1. Released v0.04 of the Balsamiq Mockups conversion tool

July 2009

  1. Turn Balsamiq Mockups wireframes into clickable imagemaps

June 2009

  1. “Smart kid can’t find a direct way to tell faceless companies his smart ideas so they can implement them, so he founds a startup…” (Hacker News)
  2. Python library/framework for writing P2P applications (Stack Overflow)
  3. Paging in a REST collection (Stack Overflow)

May 2009

  1. Regarding Lee Jang Sub’s “ComplexCity”

November 2008

  1. Plans for that

July 2008

  1. There will be no Web 3.0

May 2008

  1. How oEmbed and differential GET could work using existing HTTP semantics

February 2008

  1. Rebooting a newspaper’s online presence

January 2008

  1. Mockups and discussion of Mozilla Firefox crash reporter UI improvements (Mozilla Bugzilla)

December 2007

  1. Mockups and discussion of Mozilla Firefox crash reporter UI improvements (Mozilla Bugzilla)

November 2007

  1. Mockups and discussion of Mozilla Firefox crash reporter UI improvements (Mozilla Bugzilla)
  2. Mockups and discussion of Mozilla Firefox crash reporter UI improvements (Mozilla Bugzilla)

April 2005

  1. “The crux of the arguments with my previous wiki logo and image design efforts, and the same ones that keep coming up here, is the idea that the logo must convey the ‘essence of wiki’ or ‘collaboration and sharing and co-authorship and community’ and all of that. It’s a wonderful notion, but it’s wrong.” (MoinMoin wiki branding discussion)

January 2001

  1. NASA Connect does a segment on the Virtual International Space Station project